In Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party has formed the government after getting a thumping majority. Yogi Adityanath took oath as the Chief Minister for the second consecutive time at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. His old deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has been retained despite the defeat from Sirathu. However, Dinesh Sharma has been replaced by another Brahmin face, Brajesh Pathak, as the Deputy Chief Minister. Brajesh Pathak was very special to Mayawati before joining the BJP in 2016.
Pathak is a prominent Brahmin face in UP politics. He has been given the place of Dinesh Sharma, who was the Deputy Chief Minister in the first term of the Yogi government. Brajesh Pathak has come after winning the election from Lucknow Cantt. Born on 25 June 1964, Brajesh Pathak has done LLB. Became an MP for the first time in the fourteenth Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2008. He was a member of Rajya Sabha from 2008-14. He joined the BJP in 2016, giving a blow to Mayawati. In March 2017, he became an MLA for the first time in the Seventeenth Legislative Assembly and was the Law Minister in the Yogi government.
He is said to have played an important role in forming a Dalit-Brahmin alliance in the BSP. With the help of this social engineering, Mayawati was successful in reaching power in 2007. Brajesh Pathak started his political journey from student politics from Lucknow University. In 2002, he contested from Malwan seat of Hardoi on a Congress ticket. However, he lost in a close contest to Satish Verma of BSP. After that he joined BSP.
Brajesh Pathak is originally a resident of Mohalla Gangarampur in Mallawan town of Hardoi district. His father Suresh Pathak has been the chairman of Mallavan. He is the youngest of three brothers. The eldest is Rajesh Pathak, middle brother Dinesh Pathak. Brother is associated with BJP. Farming and trading.